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- Legal Name: Banks, Iain Menzies
- Birthplace: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
- Birthdate: 16 February 1954
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
- IMDB Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052169/
- Webpage: http://www.iainbanks.net/
- Webpage: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/banks_iain_m
- Used These Alternate Names: Iain Banks
- Interviews: Iain M. Banks: Makes Up Good Tunes , Interview with Iain M. Banks , Cultural Differences , Eye to Eye: An Interview with Iain Banks , The Facts of the Matter , Interview (Matter) , Dial 'M' for Matter: An Interview with Iain M Banks , Iain M. Banks , Iain Banks Interview , Iain Banks , Interview with Iain M. Banks , Iain Banks Interview , Shaking the Foundations: Iain M. Banks Interview , Dogged by Technology: Iain M. Banks Interview
- ISFDB Record Number: 100
- Biography: Bio:Iain M. Banks
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Iain M. Banks
- Author Tags: space opera (21) , artificial intelligence (16) , science fiction (12) , nanotechnology (9) , transhuman (9) , galactic empire (6) , bsfa award for best novel finalist (5) , Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (4) , ship AI (4) , pick (4) , Utopia (4) , post-scarcity (4) , locus award for best science fiction novel finalist (3) , mega-engineering (3) , bsfa award for best novel winner (3) , 1-award-winner (2) , ai citizens (2) , to read 1989 (2) , assassin (1) , to read 1990 (1) , arthur c clarke award finalist (1) , to read 1988 (1) , natural disaster (1) , to read 1994 (1) , war with aliens (1) , to read 1987 (1) , read (1) , npr top 100 sf&f (1) , guardian best sf&f novels (1) , quest (1) , to read 1993 (1) , to read 1996 (1) , august derleth nominee (1) , james tiptree jr award finalist (1) , singularity (1) , to read 2000 (1) , to read 1998 (1) , business (1) , non-genre (1) , anthology (1) , locus award for best novella nominee (1) , gas giant planet (1) , methane breathers (1) , hugo award for best novel finalist (1) , to read 2004 (1) , This is not SF but a good read (1) , artifact (1) , megastructure (1) , to read 2008 (1) , to read 2009 (1) , john w campbell award finalist (1) , to read 2010 (1) , AI (1)
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- Consider Phlebas (1987)
- The Player of Games (1988)
- Use of Weapons (1990)
- Against a Dark Background (1993)
- Feersum Endjinn (1994)
- Excession (1996)
- Inversions (1998)
- Look to Windward (2000)
- The Algebraist (2004)
- Matter (2008)
- Transition (2009) [also as by Iain Banks ]
- Surface Detail (2010)
- The Hydrogen Sonata (2012)
- The State of the Art (1989)
- The Spheres (2010)
- Cleaning Up (1987)
- The State of the Art (1989)
- The Wasp Factory (1984) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Walking on Glass (1985) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- The Bridge (1986) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Espedair Street (1987) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Canal Dreams (1989) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- The Crow Road (1992) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Complicity (1993) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Whit (1995) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- A Song of Stone (1997) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- The Business (1999) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Dead Air (2002) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale (2007) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Stonemouth (2012) [also as by Iain Banks ]
- from The Wasp Factory (excerpt) (1984) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- A Gift from the Culture (1987)
- Scratch (1987)
- Descendant (1987)
- Cleaning Up (1987)
- Road of Skulls (1988)
- Piece (1989)
- The State of the Art (1989)
- Odd Attachment (1989)
- Against a Dark Background (excerpt) (1993)
- The Bridge (excerpt) (1997) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Matter (excerpt) (2008)
- Matter (excerpt) (2008)
- The Spheres (2010)
- The Secret Courtyard (2010)
- Debriefing (1995)
- New (1995)
- Introduction (The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Three) (1990)
- Extracts: A Few Notes On the Culture (1996) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Introduction (The Human Front) (2001)
- A Few Notes on the Culture (The State of the Art) (2004)
- Ken MacLeod (2006) [only as by Iain Banks ]
- Appendix (Matter) (2008)
- Meet the Author (2008)